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Dr Deema Kaneff -
Curriculum Vitae
Current
Position
Senior Research Fellow, Max
Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Education
| 1981-1983 |
Bachelor of Arts,
University of Adelaide, South Australia.
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| 1984 |
Honours
in Anthropology, University of Adelaide, South Australia. Dissertation
title: An analysis of the media campaign for UN designated
‘International Year of Disabled Persons
1981’
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| 1992 |
PhD in Anthropology, University of Adelaide, South Australia. Dissertation title:
‘Social Constructions of the Past and Their
Significance in the Bulgarian Socialist State’. |
Professional
Positions
| 1990 |
Tutor
for anthropology students, University of Adelaide, Australia.
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| 1992-1994 |
Visiting Research Fellow, King's College,
Cambridge, UK.
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| 1992-1999 |
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of
Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK.
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| 1993-1999 |
Casual lecturing for Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of
Cambridge, UK. Includes supervision of students.
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| 1999 – |
Senior
research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle,
Germany.
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| 2003-2006 |
Lead
researcher with Frances Pine, on project funded by Volkswagen
Foundation, titled: ‘Political, Economic and Social Inclusion and
Exclusion in Bulgaria and Poland’. Includes supervision of postgraduate
students. |
Consultancies
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For
Refugee Legal Centre (UN funded organisation), London, as well as a
variety of private legal firms throughout the UK working with asylum
seekers. Work includes writing reports for Judicial Reviews concerning
asylum cases and/or verbal advice.
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For CEI Countries in Transition Project, Supported by Italian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, European Community & Municipality of Bologna,
Co-ordinators: University of Bologna, Italy. The work involved giving
presentations and offering advice to researchers.
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Research
Awards
| 1985-1989 |
Commonwealth
Postgraduate Research Award, Australia.
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| 1990-1991 |
Australian
Academy of the Humanities travel grant, Canberra.
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| 1992-1993 |
George
Murray Scholarship for Post-doctoral Research, University of Adelaide.
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| 1994 |
Nuffield
Small Grant in the Social Sciences, U.K.
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| 1995 |
Wenner-Gren
Foundation for Anthropological Research, Richard Carley Hunt
Postdoctoral Fellowship, U.S.A.
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| 2003-2006 |
Volkswagen
Foundation Grant (Germany) for project on ‘Exclusion and Inclusion in
Bulgaria and Poland’. |
Fieldwork
Field Research in Bulgaria
I have lived and researched both
in urban and rural areas of the country amounting to a period of 4
years, over the last 20 years.
Topics researched: post
socialist reforms - especially political change and market reforms, property
relations, emerging ethnic conflicts, political power,
migration, exclusion of poor and socially disadvantaged (including
minority groups), unemployment, and poverty.
Field Research in Ukraine
I have lived over one year in
both rural and urban contexts in southern Ukraine (Odessa province),
since 2000.
Topics researched: post
socialist reforms - economic and political, role of western development projects,
poverty, migration.
Languages
 | fluent in English and Bulgarian |
| good comprehension of Macedonian |
| working knowledge of Russian |
| intermediate German |
Professional
Associations and Activities
| founding member, International
Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InESEA) |
| member, European Association of
Social Anthropologists (EASA) |
| member, Australian
Anthropological Association |
| member, Europe and the Balkans
International Network (co-ordinated by the University of Bologna,
Italy) |
| member of Editorial Board, Ethnologia
Balkanica, Journal of South East European Studies |
Recent
Conferences
I have participated in a large
number of conferences across Europe and the USA since the early 1990s.
In more recent years I have convened panels and organised
conferences, bringing together specialists from around the world.
| 2000 |
Co-Organiser of the
inaugural InASEA conference, Sofia. Also,
paper presentation: ‘Researching property relations in post-socialist
states’.
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| 2002
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Co-Organiser of conference titled:
‘A
World of Cultures: Culture as Property in Anthropological Perspective’,
Halle, MPI. Also paper presentation: ‘Culture for Sale: Rural Ukraine
Identity and the Production of Cultural Objects’.
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| 2002
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Convenor of panel at 7th Biennial EASA conference titled: ‘Engaging the
World: Theoretical, Methodological and Political Challenges for a 21st
Century Anthropology’, Copenhagen. Panel titled:
‘Engaging with/in the
Postsocialist World: Property and Anthropology’.
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| 2002
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Paper presentation at AAA, New Orleans. Title of paper: (with B.
Cellarius) ‘The "unfairness" of reform: property and inequality in
postsocialist Bulgaria and Ukraine’.
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| 2003
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Paper presentation at 5th Decennial Conference of the
Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth,
conference on ‘Anthropology and Science’, Manchester.
Paper title: ‘The Science of Governance and Local Bulgarian
Responses’.
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| 2004
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Poster presentation at 8th Biennial EASA conference on: Face
to Face: Connecting Distance and Proximity, Vienna.
Poster title: ‘The life and death of a western funded project in
rural Ukraine’.
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| 2005
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Co-Organiser of conference titled:
‘Emerging Citizenship and
Contested Identities’, Halle. I also gave the opening paper at the
event.
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| 2005
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Invited participant at British Council sponsored event titled: ‘Conversations with
Russia’, Moscow. Meeting theme:
‘The
Economy’. |
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